IRAQ: Idle Contractors Add Millions to Iraq Rebuildingby James Glantz, The New York TimesOctober 25th, 2006Overhead costs have consumed more than half the budget of some reconstruction projects in Iraq, according to a government estimate released yesterday, leaving far less money than expected to provide the oil, water and electricity needed to improve the lives of Iraqis.

US: GOP Kills Bill to Police Halliburtonby Bob Geiger, AlterNetJune 20th, 2006I suppose it's old news at this point that the Bush administration lied us into the Iraq war and that the cost of this mess will be fully realized by the next generation when Bush leaves office with the biggest budget deficit in U.S. history.

US: Big Bonuses Still Flow, Even if Bosses Miss Goalsby Gretchen Morgenson, The New York TimesMay 31st, 2006As executive pay packages have rocketed in recent years, their defenders have contended that because most are tied to company performance, they are both earned and deserved. But as the Las Vegas Sands example shows, investors who plow through company filings often find that executive compensation exceeds the amounts allowed under the performance targets set by the directors.

US: Protestors Arrested at Halliburton Annual Meetingby Shaun Schafer, Associated PressMay 17th, 2006Sixteen people protesting Halliburton Co.'s role as a military contractor were arrested Wednesday outside a building where shareholders discussed spinning off the subsidiary that provides meals, clean laundry and other services to U.S. troops in Iraq.

Ports of Profit
by Pratap Chatterjee, Special to CorpWatchFebruary 24th, 2006The ports of Dubai make up some of the busiest commercial hubs in the world for the "global war of terrorism." Conveniently located between the Afghanistan and Iraq, Dubai is the ideal jumping-off point for military contractors and a lucrative link in the commercial supply chain of goods and people.

Baghdad Embassy Bonanzaby David Phinney, Special to CorpWatchFebruary 12th, 2006A controversial Kuwait-based construction firm accused of exploiting employees and coercing low-paid laborers to work in war-torn Iraq against their will is now building the new $592-million U.S. embassy in Baghdad.

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US: Immigrants Often Unpaid for Katrina Work
by Justin Pritchard, Associated PressNovember 5th, 2005A pattern is emerging as the cleanup of Mississippi's Gulf Coast morphs into its multibillion-dollar reconstruction: Come payday, untold numbers of Hispanic immigrant laborers are being stiffed.